No adding cherry juice to red icing. No mixing of every color in your arsenal to make black. No stirring 2 containers of red food coloring into icing and still winding up with pink. (When I first started decorating cookies, I tried it all.)

All you need is AmeriColor Super. What I love about these colors is that you don't need the entire bottle to make a true red and true black. Both colors will darken over time and while drying, so try tinting your icing *just about* to the color you want, then stop. You can even tint your icing a few days ahead and store it in the fridge until you need it.

Oh, did I mention these have no yucky aftertaste like some other colors?

Recently I made dalmations and I used americolor black and did the spots on the white and when it dried the black spots ran and turned green/yellow around the edges... Any tips on getting your black not to run or change colors like that. (I am new to decorating so this may be a silly question.) By the way I did wet on wet so the spots would be flush with the white icing. Thanks so much!!

They still taste awful if you end up using a lot...and it takes A LOT to color fondant red or black :/ not as bad as wiilton, but still frustrating. And yeah, both red and black colors bleed horribly! Still love americolor, just hate those two colors!

I find I am very sensitive to the bitter red taste, much more so than most people. The super red is beautiful, but still tastes bad to me. Sweet Sugar Belle uses tulip red and says that is no taste. I tried it and really didn't taste it, but it is a very orangey red. I did have good luck using mostly tulip red and then a little super red to tone down the orange. Unfortunately though I did seem to need more tulip red to reach the same depth of color as opposed to super red.

I had nearly this same question today when I was at JoAnn getting icing colors-- and wouldn't you know I picked up your book (already have a copy at home) in the aisle to see what you would suggest for black icing? I didn't notice this brand of coloring at their store but will take a closer look next time. Thanks for the great advice!

Sorry if this is a silly question but I am new to cookie decorating...but am truly loving it. Will the black and red icing "dye" the cookie eaters mouth and teeth? I once ordered a Scooby Doo cake for my son's kindergarten class and had to run out the door when all the children had black and purple mouths :-) Thanks for your help...Kim

After a bad black spotting on my red Valentines cookies last year Red scares me! LOL Thank goodness it was a customer who always orders cookies so knew something wasn't right. It's only happened once but now I only do pink for Valentine's. Americolour is the best red out there though.

Hey Bridget! You saved the day by mentioning they carry these at HobbyLobby! My city does not have a baking supply shop at all. I have a Minnie Mouse birthday cake to make this weekend and forgot to order SuperBlack in time. I was lamenting having to go through a whole jar of that "other" coloring to get a true black for Minnie. I hadn't even THOUGHT about HobbyLobby! (We haven't had one for very long). Baker's luck! Thanks!

I had never heard of AmeriColor until I started reading your blog about a year ago. Not being a professional or particularly talented (unlike you) cookie/cake decorator, I stored away the name but didn't think that it could be all that different from other food coloring. My local cake decorating store doesn't carry it and even told me there was no way to make intense colors in icing that tastes good. Then I discovered that I can buy AmeriColor at Hobby Lobby. Last week I made a neon polka dot (inside) cake with neon rainbow frosting for my daughters birthday using AmeriColor. The colors were gorgeous, intense and flavorless! Thank you, Briget for sharing your decorating knowledge! I am in awe of your cookies and have learned so much from your blog!

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